Handling: When Do You, When Don't You
What to listen for: “Handling is not a recipe. It’s a craft.” Odor detection handling mastery comes down to hitting that delicate balance...
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- Aug 19
Encouraging Your Dog to Be Brave
What to listen for: “I think by encouraging it [confidence] and allowing it to happen and letting the dog utilize what's fun and what's...
- Aug 6
Distraction Camp 2024 Hot Wash!
What to listen for: “Every distraction is a possible reinforcement.” Could minor changes in your training strategy routine drastically...
- Jul 30
The Importance of Known Hides
What to listen for: “Even if you don't give them a cookie, you don't play, the dog has been reinforced. [It’s] just the way their brain...
- Jul 16
Talking Detection Dogs with Adee Schoon Pt 2
What to listen for: “So I think dog training is almost 90% thinking and preparing, and 10% working with your dog.” Two of our three...
- Jun 18
Talking Detection Dogs with Adee Schoon Pt 1
What to listen for: “When you're with your dog, you're working with the dog, and when he's resting, he's resting, and don't ask him to...
- Jun 3
Troubleshooting Your Detection Chain
What to listen for: "You need to give the dog a bit more space, release the pressure, so that then the dog has the option of leaving the...
- May 21
Functional Agility and All its Benefits
What to listen for: "Physical agility gives them some mental agility too, and so it's giving them that well-exercised brain, and then...
- May 14
The Importance of Setting Hides
What to listen for: “When you have that young dog, don’t put out that super hard hide. You don’t have that reinforcement history.” Our...
- Apr 30
How Do You Define Success?!!?
What to listen for: “Success is the joy that we have with our dogs and the relationships that we're building.” Ever wondered how small...
- Apr 15
Being Coached Hard to Advance Your Training
What to listen for: “My job as a coach is not to identify your destination, but your goal, and to help you identify and remove roadblocks...
- Apr 2
All things Area Search/Live Find SAR
What to listen for: “We're dealing with a dog who has its own set of motivators. And so we just need to always be conscious of the fact...
- Mar 19
How Do You Define Struggle?
What to listen for: “You really have to be observant and try to see, ‘what can my dog cope with, versus what can't they cope with?’ And...
- Mar 5
Bomb Dog Research, Odor Purity, and Research Update with Dr. Lauryn DeGreeff, Dr. Michele Maughan and Jenna Gadberry
What to listen for: “It's sort of like giving a chocolate cake recipe to different people. Just because you gave them the same chocolate...
- Feb 20
Martha Hoffman Reflections - 5000 Hour Eyes and Kindness
What to listen for: “That's the part that just takes it over the edge for me - I know that my dog feels my excitement, my anticipation,...
- Feb 12
MythBusting: Obedience to Odor, +R Placement, and Using the Word Always/Never
What to listen for: “The odor that they get reinforced for may not be the odor that you think you’re reinforcing. So, odor obedience is...
- Jan 30
Martha Hoffman: Bali Dogs and 5000 Hours of Observation Pt. 2
What to listen for: “They have a huge range of warning signals, very carefully graduated, all kinds of growls, and moans, and all kinds...
- Jan 23
Martha Hoffman: Bali Dogs and 5000 Hours of Observation Pt. 1
What to listen for: "The doggy daycare worker and the shelter worker who is not being touted as any kind of behaviorist or trainer, are...
- Jan 16
Tinkering and Creativity in Training
What to listen for: “I look at the dog and if something goes wrong I say, ‘Thank you for the information.’ As dog trainers, we modify...
- Jan 9
100 Episodes In and Collaboration is Still the Key
What to listen for: "I appreciate the fact that our little collaborative thing has allowed us to have some of these really, really hard...
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